CleanSea

Tackling plastic soup

An important goal of CleanSea was to provide policymakers and administrators in Europe with approaches for reducing the amount of plastics in Europe’s seas and oceans. Deltares was one of seventeen partners in the consortium….

Greening Plastics in Senegal

Major issues such as waste management, environmental degradation and rising demand for food dominate the political agenda in the African country of Senegal. The Greening Plastics project focuses on the interaction between all these areas….

Singapore to adopt Dutch polder concept as new land reclamation method at Pulau Tekong

Urban resilience

Singapore will reclaim land through the development of a polder at the north-western tip of Pulau Tekong, an island north-east of mainland Singapore. This cost-saving method, to be used for the first time in Singapore,…

Stratigraphic modeling with the Delft3D GeoTool

Characterisation and visualisation of the subsurface

The Delft3D GeoTool is an open-source software, which allows to easily setup and run Delft3D simulations, populate, access, and mine a database of numerical river delta models, and export relevant data to existing software used…

Protecting Colombo against future floods

Urban resilience

Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, was hit in May 2016 by the worst flooding since 1989. Encroachment of valuable wetland systems, informal settlements and less efficient urban drainage systems contributed to the intensity of…

Smart

Salvage and wreck removal

In salvage and wreck removal operations, the complexity, operational and environmental requirements call for a multidisciplinary approach. Deltares understands this and provides specialist knowledge in areas like geotechnical and coastal engineering, morphology, dredging, metocean and…

Cristoforo Colombo

Salvage and wreck removal

Developed a refloat concept of the vessel together with the client by means of dredging, building a dike and usage of geomembrane. Investigated geotechnical data and assessed risk involved in the stability and integrity of…

Baltic Ace

Salvage and wreck removal

Investigated and advised the P&I Club on suitability of soil conditions around the Baltic Ace area to enable lowering by dredging. This was achieved by analyzing available geological and geotechnical data. When the dredging option…

Nutrient Monitoring Network for Agriculture-Specific Surface Water

Monitoring and modelling of ecosystems

Intensive farming in the Netherlands produces vast amounts of manure that is spread on fields and pastures. This manure, in combination with other fertilizers, results in excessive concentrations of nitrogen and phosphate in soil, groundwater…

Time traveling in the Netherlands: Paleo-maps

Characterisation and visualisation of the subsurface

Deltares developed this app to enable the wide public, everyone with a smartphone, to time-travel through the landscape of the Netherlands and become more aware of our past and of the ground layers below our…